we have a new kitten, he's adorable
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Monday, November 30, 2009
Sunday, October 11, 2009
and so i went on a date with femme
i had been missing femme's clicks for the whole week, so she and i went on an impromptu date to one north for a bit of fun.
it wasn't raining for once, it was crazily sunny in fact...but when i walked in between the buildings it suddenly became wonderfully shady...i'm no fan of zaha hadid, but she did understand something of the tropics when she determined 'that no building shall be further than 12 feet from each other'...generating people friendly spaces in-between buildings. Even her zig-zag shapes worked here, at least for the little parks and nooks and crannies, because it generated a feeling of un-intention...and one felt like these spaces were 'accidentally there, and that was what was so pretty about it.
hmm...the reason why i am crapping so much is because only one photograph turned out okay...but still, we had fun together, femme and i. So it wasn't that much of a waste.
i like it because it looks like a render. haha.
Okay, here are some of the other shots...but not good stuff, so be warned.
'paper'
i took this at hall on the way to the busstop...
meet this centralized generator room thing (actually i'm not sure what it is...will find out) it is more efficient...and looking at it, you wouldn't imagine it was a centralized generator room thingie, right? quite nice.
one of those zig zag nooks and crannies i mentioned. i likey.
i was thinking it looked cool and all that (think jaws...) but um...fail lah.
meet sars
no really, no kidding. it's quite a nice looking artpiece...but i don't understand it...@@
i liked neuros...(maybe cos it was boxy...)
the photograph doesn't do justice to the tree...it's an original rainforest tree that got transplanted and kept in a nursery in Malaysia during the construction of One North and then got carted back to Singapore to be placed where it originally was. I don't approve of how it was done (hark my idealism) but i suppose there is something poetic about 'how the tree was put back to where is originally belonged and all that).
still, it looked a bit fantasy landish and i liked that...the juxtaposition of raw nature and that futuristic looking building at the back.
it wasn't raining for once, it was crazily sunny in fact...but when i walked in between the buildings it suddenly became wonderfully shady...i'm no fan of zaha hadid, but she did understand something of the tropics when she determined 'that no building shall be further than 12 feet from each other'...generating people friendly spaces in-between buildings. Even her zig-zag shapes worked here, at least for the little parks and nooks and crannies, because it generated a feeling of un-intention...and one felt like these spaces were 'accidentally there, and that was what was so pretty about it.
hmm...the reason why i am crapping so much is because only one photograph turned out okay...but still, we had fun together, femme and i. So it wasn't that much of a waste.
i like it because it looks like a render. haha.
Okay, here are some of the other shots...but not good stuff, so be warned.
'paper'
i took this at hall on the way to the busstop...
meet this centralized generator room thing (actually i'm not sure what it is...will find out) it is more efficient...and looking at it, you wouldn't imagine it was a centralized generator room thingie, right? quite nice.
one of those zig zag nooks and crannies i mentioned. i likey.
i was thinking it looked cool and all that (think jaws...) but um...fail lah.
meet sars
no really, no kidding. it's quite a nice looking artpiece...but i don't understand it...@@
i liked neuros...(maybe cos it was boxy...)
the photograph doesn't do justice to the tree...it's an original rainforest tree that got transplanted and kept in a nursery in Malaysia during the construction of One North and then got carted back to Singapore to be placed where it originally was. I don't approve of how it was done (hark my idealism) but i suppose there is something poetic about 'how the tree was put back to where is originally belonged and all that).
still, it looked a bit fantasy landish and i liked that...the juxtaposition of raw nature and that futuristic looking building at the back.
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Of Chinatowns and People's Parks
Went to Chinatown with a childhood friend...
we checked out people's park complex, which i wanted to see for my western archi mod, don't ask me why. it's to do with my essay, which i am very worried about. People's Park Complex was designed in 1967 by William Lim (who set up DP architects), Tay Kheng Soon and Koh Seow Chuan the first year the firm was set up (source: wikipedia).
The People's Park Complex is large mixed use development, consisting of office blocks and apartments above a podium of shopping space. I was reading 'Mega-cities in the tropics - towards an architectural agenda for the future' by Tay, and in it he also mentioned how mixed-use buildings are an architectural solution for the tropics. He also talked about the demarcation of public, private and semi private space, which is also found in this building, what with the public (and anonymous spaces) below, the private spaces (in the apartment blocks) and the roof level common area (semi private?) which encourages socializing (maybe). I think this was one of the buildings whereby Tay tested out certain ideas that were later inherent in his manifesto.
the green stuns me a bit. it wasn't originally supposed to be in green, it was raw concrete...'in keeping with the Brutalist architectural style.' (source: wikipedia)
The building's main tower accommodates a variety of apartment sizes, and access to them is independent of the shopping centre at the podium. (source: wikipedia)
Its 25 levels have been nicknamed "streets in the air", a development of the Corbusian ideal, and offer convenient spots for social interaction and intermingling. Well, okay, I couldn't get into the apartments (i tried) but it seems that there are plenty of spots for social interaction and intermingling, car-park stairways or not.
As mentioned earlier, the architecture was Brutalist, and here you can see the design of the tower, and circular potholes topping off the residential building. It's clearer in the next picture.
ditto. I think it looks kinda cool, despite all the yellow and green. Very solid and strong...and solid. and strong.
Design Partnership added verticals to the building's roof, enhancing the visual impact of the residential block (source: wikipedia). There is no connection to the picture here, really, but this looks very vertical. How to add verticals to a roof, anyway?
Those air con units look like insects climbing up the building's facades...(if you realize, i have exhausted wikipedia and now have nothing to write)
ha, that big duct thing looks like a centipede!! A green one!!
The shopping centre incorporates the first "city room" or atrium in Singapore, a concept that was pioneered by several Japanese architects under the Metabolist Movement in the 1960s. When Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki visited the site during construction, he exclaimed "But we theorised and you people are getting it built!". The shops in the shopping mall surrounds the large internal "city room", which consists of two multi-storey interlocking atriums, where a large number of "turn-over shops" and kiosks are located. The "city room" serves to retain the busy character of Chinatown.
People's Park Complex at night. It looks glittery!! I wonder why whenever i take night shots i take a very clear first shot, and then i suddenly realize it is dark, then i start trying to stabilize the camera, and all subsequent shots are shaky. whenever i stop to think i don't do very well. maybe i should rely on instinct a bit more in the future. haha.
then we walked around chinatown...childhood friend was covering chinatown for her ss mod...so we had to check out all the streets
and we saw lanterns...
and cool shophouses
and perspectives...
and lanterns and windows...
I wonder why hor, the building doesn't look straight? Isit my lens?
This is an interesting building...It looks weird...Chinatown has alot of weird buildings.
Alan Woo just told us today that Pearl Banks Apartments may be torn down for new development...DON'T PLEASE!!! A good, solid building like this with architecture (bearing the trademarks of early modernism) you can never find anywhere else (in the world) should NEVER be torn down in the name of 'development'. In it's time it was the tallest residential tower block in Asia.
more info
and more
we checked out people's park complex, which i wanted to see for my western archi mod, don't ask me why. it's to do with my essay, which i am very worried about. People's Park Complex was designed in 1967 by William Lim (who set up DP architects), Tay Kheng Soon and Koh Seow Chuan the first year the firm was set up (source: wikipedia).
The People's Park Complex is large mixed use development, consisting of office blocks and apartments above a podium of shopping space. I was reading 'Mega-cities in the tropics - towards an architectural agenda for the future' by Tay, and in it he also mentioned how mixed-use buildings are an architectural solution for the tropics. He also talked about the demarcation of public, private and semi private space, which is also found in this building, what with the public (and anonymous spaces) below, the private spaces (in the apartment blocks) and the roof level common area (semi private?) which encourages socializing (maybe). I think this was one of the buildings whereby Tay tested out certain ideas that were later inherent in his manifesto.
the green stuns me a bit. it wasn't originally supposed to be in green, it was raw concrete...'in keeping with the Brutalist architectural style.' (source: wikipedia)
The building's main tower accommodates a variety of apartment sizes, and access to them is independent of the shopping centre at the podium. (source: wikipedia)
Its 25 levels have been nicknamed "streets in the air", a development of the Corbusian ideal, and offer convenient spots for social interaction and intermingling. Well, okay, I couldn't get into the apartments (i tried) but it seems that there are plenty of spots for social interaction and intermingling, car-park stairways or not.
As mentioned earlier, the architecture was Brutalist, and here you can see the design of the tower, and circular potholes topping off the residential building. It's clearer in the next picture.
ditto. I think it looks kinda cool, despite all the yellow and green. Very solid and strong...and solid. and strong.
Design Partnership added verticals to the building's roof, enhancing the visual impact of the residential block (source: wikipedia). There is no connection to the picture here, really, but this looks very vertical. How to add verticals to a roof, anyway?
Those air con units look like insects climbing up the building's facades...(if you realize, i have exhausted wikipedia and now have nothing to write)
ha, that big duct thing looks like a centipede!! A green one!!
The shopping centre incorporates the first "city room" or atrium in Singapore, a concept that was pioneered by several Japanese architects under the Metabolist Movement in the 1960s. When Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki visited the site during construction, he exclaimed "But we theorised and you people are getting it built!". The shops in the shopping mall surrounds the large internal "city room", which consists of two multi-storey interlocking atriums, where a large number of "turn-over shops" and kiosks are located. The "city room" serves to retain the busy character of Chinatown.
People's Park Complex at night. It looks glittery!! I wonder why whenever i take night shots i take a very clear first shot, and then i suddenly realize it is dark, then i start trying to stabilize the camera, and all subsequent shots are shaky. whenever i stop to think i don't do very well. maybe i should rely on instinct a bit more in the future. haha.
then we walked around chinatown...childhood friend was covering chinatown for her ss mod...so we had to check out all the streets
and we saw lanterns...
and cool shophouses
and perspectives...
and lanterns and windows...
I wonder why hor, the building doesn't look straight? Isit my lens?
This is an interesting building...It looks weird...Chinatown has alot of weird buildings.
Alan Woo just told us today that Pearl Banks Apartments may be torn down for new development...DON'T PLEASE!!! A good, solid building like this with architecture (bearing the trademarks of early modernism) you can never find anywhere else (in the world) should NEVER be torn down in the name of 'development'. In it's time it was the tallest residential tower block in Asia.
more info
and more
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
ION(s are charged particles)
corridors
we thought it was a golf course ha
curtains inLV
Trees
Shiny leh
Biking Helmet
Nice roof
Bias
Nice roof leh
I'm so happy
I'm so happy lor, someone else called my poochie cute!! haha!!
see, seeeee
It's not the greatest of photographs, but I think I've learned something from this...in photographing people or animals, you photograph them best when you are trying to capture a particular trait in them which is in your mind. and i caught my poochie at his best, looking so handsome and bright eyed and happy and confident!!!
I love my dog @@
see, seeeee
It's not the greatest of photographs, but I think I've learned something from this...in photographing people or animals, you photograph them best when you are trying to capture a particular trait in them which is in your mind. and i caught my poochie at his best, looking so handsome and bright eyed and happy and confident!!!
I love my dog @@
Sunday, August 2, 2009
HANDSOME
click on the pic for the flickr photo!
"handsum"
this photo is not bad, apparently. someone saw it fit to add it to a group of amazing photographs on flickr (ok, this is nothing to most i suppose, and i've been adding photos to flickr like nobodies business, and i suppose if you add enough photographs someone might add the photograph to a group, but then i am a newbie lol andit is a first for me, and firsts are always exciting!) (that was a long sentence)
here is the group. I am afraid to add leh. the pics are absolutely amazingly gorgeous and i cannot imagine adding my poor little picture to it. maybe the person who wants me to add that pic randomly asks people to add pics to that group.
but anyway, it is quite encouraging. but i am still afraid to add it to the group. so embarrassing. haih. I'm going to miss my Poochie.
Saturday, August 1, 2009
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